The Mindy Project (tv program)

Comedy may still be a desired staple of prime-time TV, but broadcasters haven't found much to laugh about for the upcoming season.

The TV networks unleashed their 2015-16 evening lineups in New York this week, leaving industry insiders buzzing about the Great Comedy Rollback. Burned by a high number of sitcom flops in recent years, programmers have decided to stop trying to bring the funny.

NBC, onetime home to generation-defining hits "Friends" and "Seinfeld," has exiled comedy to the dead zone of Friday nights. CBS benched "2 Broke Girls" until midseason and decided to take a flier on the drama reboot of "Supergirl," setting up a...

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Comedy may still be a desired staple of prime-time TV, but broadcasters haven't found much to laugh about for the upcoming season.
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“The Mindy Project” has found love with Hulu.
Less than a week after rumblings surfaced that the Mindy Kaling comedy was eyeing a home on the streaming site following its rejection from Fox, a deal has officially been locked in.
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While "Mindy Project" fans are reeling over news of the show's cancellation and starting petitions for its resurrection, its namesake, Mindy Kaling, is taking it all in with a smile (and a wink).
When news broke Wednesday that the series had...

Should Hulu end up being the rebound platform for "The Mindy Project," it'd be another high sign of the streaming service's aggressive push to up its game.
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Fox has brought down the curtain after three seasons on "The Mindy Project," the romantic sitcom created by and starring Mindy Kaling. But despite the cancellation, don't count the series out just yet.
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In the two decades since making her acting debut in Larry Clark's disturbing teen film "Kids" and being dubbed "Girl of the Moment" by Jay McInerney in the New Yorker, Chloë Sevigny has proved to be a surprising chameleon. While...

"Weird Loners" is a new comedy from Fox that feels like an old comedy from Fox.
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A moment of quiet on “The Mindy Project”? It is possible.
The third season finale of the Fox comedy airs Tuesday, and Mindy Kaling--the eponymous heroine at its center--promises the usually totally chatty show will tone it down. At least briefly. And...

“Glee” took its final bow Friday, and although lots of people had already left the show behind -- some even after Season 1 -- I clung to it. No matter how bad, boring, cheesy or depressing it got.
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"Parks and Recreation" kicked off its final season up from last season's premiere. But the return of Leslie Knope (played by Amy Poehler) and her cohorts didn't lure more viewers than CBS' Tuesday night lineup.
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ABC's "Marvel's Agent Carter" is off to a decent start in TV ratings.
The premiere, which aired from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., drew in 6.9-million viewers and a 1.9 rating in the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic, according to Nielsen.
The...

Deck the halls with Wreath Witherspoon! Reese Witherspoon has become a viral holiday decoration thanks to Mindy Kaling and "The Mindy Project" writers room.
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Powerhouse producer Shonda Rhimes and ABC's hit new comedy "black-ish" scored big in major nominations for the 46th NAACP Image Awards, which honor the accomplishments of people of color in television, film and other cultural categories.
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NBC won 18-to-49-year-old viewers with help from "The Voice" in Tuesday night's prime-time TV ratings, while ABC's holiday specials trailed closely behind.
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The TV ratings mirror ball for Tuesday goes to ABC.
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The season premiere of "Masterchef Junior" on Fox elevated the network to No. 1 in the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic.
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Time Warner has said it wants its TNT and TBS cable channels to be edgier and more culturally relevant.
The company is near a deal to hire former Fox programming chief Kevin Reilly to attempt to do just that.
Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit is...

NBC won the key 18-to-49-year-old demographic on Tuesday night with help from "The Voice" and the premiere of the sitcom "Marry Me."
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